I give you a cookie for the Dr Who pic but then take it away for your horrible avatar!tghm1801 said:"Can't we call for help?"
"Yeah, cos the universe is really quite small and there's bound to be someone nearby."
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Yeah but eventually you wouldn't be able to see it, coz it gets red-ified (not the actual term)WalrusMan said:I would give the finger to a nearby window. Because anyone observing us getting sucked into the black hole would never actually view us disappearing. It'd look like we are frozen for infinity.
redshiftedFallenJellyDoughnut said:Yeah but eventually you wouldn't be able to see it, coz it gets red-ified (not the actual term)WalrusMan said:I would give the finger to a nearby window. Because anyone observing us getting sucked into the black hole would never actually view us disappearing. It'd look like we are frozen for infinity.
Well fuck my O-zone, that will shut those smartass Startrek nerds up!Lazarus Long said:Ahem.OptimusPrime33 said:But isn't a parsec a unit of distance, not time?Lazarus Long said:Fuck it. Turn this bad boy around and plow into it at full speed. With any luck, we'll either end up in a parallel universe, or make the Kessel Run in less than .01 parsec.
The Kessel Run is a smuggling route in Star Wars that cuts dangerously close to a black hole. The faster the ship, the closer it can edge to said singularity without facing our hypothetical situation here. Han Solo's boast that he did it in less than 12 parsecs meant that the Falcon was bitchin' fast.
/meganerd
Or possibly George Lucas had no idea what he was talking about and just threw in a word he heard Carl Sagan say.